Getting Started with SAS for Windows

The SAS System is a comprehensive and flexible information delivery system that supports data access, data management, data analysis, and data presentation. SAS for Windows is a complete implementation of the SAS System. It enables you to perform many analyses on your PC that were once possible only on much larger machines. Windows enables you to communicate between applications. SAS for Windows also reads data files from a variety of file formats including Excel, dBase, Lotus, and ASCII Text.

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Table of Contents

• Introduction
  • How to Use this Document
  • What is SAS?
  • Launching SAS
  • Windows in SAS for Windows
  • Menus in SAS
• Working within SAS
  • Using the Cursor
  • Using Icons
  • Using the Enhanced Editor
• Writing a SAS Program: the DATA Step
  • Organizing Your Data for Analysis
  • DATA Statement
  • INFILE Statement
  • INPUT Statement
  • DATALINES Statement
  • IF-THEN and SAS Functions
  • LABEL Statement
  • PROC FORMAT Statement
  • RUN Statement
  • Comment Statements
• Writing a SAS Program: the PROC Step
  • FREQ Statement
  • MEANS Statement
  • CORR Statement
  • ENDSAS Statement
• Writing and Executing a SAS Program
  • Writing a SAS Program
  • Executing a SAS Program
• Sample Data Sets
  • The CLAS Sample Data Set
  • Other SAS Sample Data Sets
• SAS Data Sets
  • Creating SAS Data Sets
  • Accessing SAS Data Sets
  • SAS Transport Files
• Using SAS/Graph
• Further Reading